Serzh Sargsyan did not come out to speak to citizens (video)
19.50 The march held by "We are the citizens of our country" civil initiative ended in Proshyan street. As it was expected Serzh Sargsyan did not come out to talk to the participants of the action. The group announced that they would come again, bringing more people with them. The marchers are now descending Proshyan street accompanied by police officers. 18.55 Getting to Serzh Sargsyan’s summer house on Proshyan street, the group gave him 10 minutes to come out and listen to their demands. The neighbourhood of Marshal Baghramyan metro station is closed at this moment. 18.44. “We are the masters of our country” civil initiative is holding a march in central Yerevan which started from the intersection of Baghramyan-Proshyan streets. As reported earlier the march will be held in several directions at a time. The group demands that the government allocate at least $30 000 to the families of the soldiers killed in the April skirmishes in Karabakh and at least $5000 to the families of the soldiers wounded in action. It initiative also demands to dismiss Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of the Republic Armenia, and Yuri Khachaturov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia, and Haykaz Baghmanyan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, for their inaction and inability to control the situation on the border which resulted in human losses during Azerbaijan’s large-scale offensive against Karabakh; to oblige Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer of Armenia (Mihran Poghosyan) to transfer to the state budget the entire income he receives from his offshore companies registered in Panama; to oblige about 100 oligarchs to pay to the state budget at least $10 million; to refrain from signing any document related to the settlement of the Karabakh conflict and maintain the status quo, exclude territorial concessions and deployment of peacekeepers in Artsakh and/or neighbouring territories.
